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Article #3789Re: What is a Sponsor in Internet?
From: Mark H. Weber
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 19:48
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 19:48
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In article <16130001@hpcmm7.HP.COM> chin@hpcmm7.HP.COM (fred chin) writes: > >I had some one ask me about Internet. The question they asked >had something to do with a sponsor. I had no idea what a sponsor >is in relations to internet. > Perhaps the person is referring to an "internet forwarder", an internet site which is willing to act as a gateway between the internet and a uucp site. This is required for uucp sites which want to register in a "real" domain such as "com", "org", or "us". A "mail exchanger" (MX) nameserver record is then created, showing that internet mail for the uucp site is to be sent to the "internet forwarder", which forwards it to the uucp site. Mark
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlf3.gvl.unisys.com!gvlf8-e!markw From: markw@gvlf8-e.gvl.unisys.com (Mark H. Weber) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: What is a Sponsor in Internet? Message-ID: <1991Jun26.194818.9309@news.gvl.unisys.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 19:48:18 GMT References: <16130001@hpcmm7.HP.COM> Sender: news@news.gvl.unisys.com (The NEWS user) Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, Great Valley Labs, Paoli, Pa Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: gvlf8-e